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The legislators, joined by Giant Food (Wal-Mart's unionized competitor), insist disingenuously that they are not singling out the big-box retailer but are merely setting a standard.

Nobody knows if Charles Wang and Sanjay Kumar and their Computer Associates stock will have the lasting power to really create a dynasty, or if they are merely setting off one glorious explosion of fireworks, to be over before you know it.

Republicans are merely setting up the process to begin a repeal.

But it is merely set in 1956; it was published in 1989.

At first, it isn't clear whether the novel is merely set in a world where people are called Bee Bee and Skip or is an effort to take on that world in a serious way.

The move won praise from his bosses, though some people suggest that he is merely setting himself for future promotions.

But given the alternatives for Lebanon, Israel and the United States, anything less would be merely setting up temporary roadblocks to an impending regional disaster.

And the government agrees, in effect, saying it is merely setting out in law the parameters for what it has been doing informally anyway.

By ditching the last remnants of its first failed incarnation, the company is merely setting the stage for phase II – Project Aura, run by a Google employee called Tony Fadell.

By taking these friendly steps — offering to appoint independent directors and creating a pro-corporate-governance poison pill — Cracker Barrel is merely setting up a nice public relations defense as its Dec. 20 shareholder meeting approaches.

When Sarah Kane was alive, one of the charges against her was that she was merely setting out to shock - though shock may seem less of a threat to the theatre than boredom.